- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tony Sloman
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2 out of 5
Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot are screen icons well adrift out west in this would-be epic western, though geographically they are not so far from their respective manors since it was filmed entirely in Spain. Despite director Edward Dmytryk - Broken Lance, Warlock - in the saddle, this is a slow-moving, high-camp fiasco. Connery (playing a cowboy) and Bardot (an aristocrat) are not alone in being oddly cast, as British actors Jack Hawkins and Eric Sykes also look like fish out of water. Really cherishable only for its truly inane theme song - Shalako, Shalako - and the sight of Honor Blackman choking to death on her own diamonds.
Plot Summary
A party of European aristocrats on a hunting trip in New Mexico falls foul of marauding Apaches and the treachery of a guide, who abandons the group and makes off with their possessions. However, a US army scout knows of their presence in the territory and sets out to the rescue. Western, with Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Woody Strode, Peter Van Eyck and Eric Sykes.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Shalako
- Sean Connery
- Countess Irina Lazaar
- Brigitte Bardot
- Bosky Fulton
- Stephen Boyd
- Sir Charles Daggett
- Jack Hawkins
- Frederick von Hallstatt
- Peter Van Eyck
- Lady Julia Daggett
- Honor Blackman
- Chato
- Woody Strode
- Mako
- Eric Sykes
- Henry Clarke
- Alexander Knox
- Elena Clarke
- Valerie French
- Rojas
- Julian Mateos
- Buffalo
- Donald Barry
- Chato's father
- Rodd Redwing
Crew
- Director
- Edward Dmytryk
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